VIDEO - 'He dragged me across the road, threw me on the floor and put his hands around my neck': Victim speaks out in bid to find rapist

Ms Wildman, who was diagnosed with post-traumatic-stress disorder following the frightening ordeal, has stepped up an appeal to catch the rapist.

The attack happened while Ms Wildman, now aged 28, was walking home in Brunswick Park Road, Wednesbury, on Boxing Day in 2004. She was dragged into the graveyard at Wood Green Cemetery and raped.

He threatened to stab her if she did not comply and then raped her.

"I left the party and then I took the decision to walk home as I never had money to get a taxi at that time," she said.

"As I was walking I felt someone jump on my back and I thought at the time it was one of my friends saying to come back to the party but then they put their hand around my neck and squeezed really tight. I was struggling to breathe and at that point I started to panic and realise I was in a bad situation.

"He dragged me across the road to the park, threw me on the floor and put his hands around my neck and I was screaming really loud.

"He said if I carried on screaming he had a knife and he was going to stab me and he didn't care if I lived or died.

"I thought he just wanted to take my stuff like my phone, I never thought he was going to rape me – that never entered my mind."

Ms Wildman went on to describe how the man forced her to walk across to the other side of the graveyard, raped her and then began to cry.

She said: "He took my phone off me because he could see I was going to call for help.

"Then when we got to the bottom of the graveyard by the wall he raped me.

"After he started crying saying he did not know what he was doing. I just asked for my phone back and ran."

The incident changed Ms Wildman's life.

"It really does change you as a person – you never ever forget what happened. It changes the whole way you look at yourself and body. You have no ownership of your own autonomy."

She said: "I wanted to get away as soon as I could. I did not feel comfortable walking around the streets.

"I couldn't walk home alone and had to get a taxi or ask for someone to pick me up.

"If I went anywhere then I thought I might see the person. I could not continue my life in the Wednesbury area."

She described the attacker as being around her age at the time, or a little bit older.

She said: "He was wearing a tracksuit type clothes and had that boy type smell like Lynx or cheap aftershave.

"I never got to see his face because he said not to look at him or he would stab me. He just continued to push my head into the snow.

"It was someone local to the area because of the accent, and because he escaped from the scene so quickly like he knew the area."

Although Ms Wildman received counselling after the incident, it was not until 10 years later she was diagnosed with post-traumatic-stress disorder and decided to seek further help.

She said: "When it came to the 10 years it really started to hit me that no one had been found yet. I just wanted to put closure to it. I wanted to waiver it as it want people to see it's not just what you see on the news – I am a real person and it has really impacted and changed my life.

"This is real life.

"I am scared that when I am in Wednesbury or the local area that he could be sitting at a table to me or pub and I would not even know it's them but they would know me and recognise me. I want them to be held to account."

Despite the attack, it has not stopped Ms Wildman from pursuing a successful career working alongside other victims of crime.

She hopes that someone may now remember come forward and justice be done.

"I think that someone could have known who it was on the evening because of how he was acting and how he went back to his family or friends house after covered in snow and wet clothes looking bedraggled."

Last week a £5,000 reward was put up by Crimestoppers in an attempt to catch the attacker, who struck at around 11pm on December 26, 2004. To help call Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555111.